When successful playwright Sidda Lee Walker (Sandra Bullock) publicly blasts her eccentric Louisiana mother Vivi (Ellen Burstyn) for her traumatic upbringing in a Time magazine article, reconciliation seems all but impossible until the Ya-Yas—sworn childhood friends of Vivi—stage an intervention to bring mother and daughter together. This 2002 adaptation of Rebecca Wells' bestselling novels costars Fionnula Flanagan, Shirley Knight, and a scene-stealing Maggie Smith as the "Ya-Ya Priestesses," and Ashley Judd as the young Vivi.